---Filter--- Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate: scrapped Port Visit Refit Deployment Aircraft 1972-nov-3 Laid down BAE Systems (Vickers) 1974-feb-22 Launched completed at Swan Hunter (Hebburn) from 1975 1979-aug Aircraft assigned 702 Sq Lynx HAS.2 XZ255 as Cardiff Flt / 335-CF, until c Dec 1981 1979-sep-24 Commissioned 1981-aug-29 Port Visit HMD Devonport Navy Days 1981 Ship open to visitors at Plymouth Navy Days 19811982-apr-20 Deployment Operation Corporate Bristol Group, leaving theatre on 7 Jul 1982 after being relieved by HMS Birmingham . 1982-jun-6 Aircraft Pleasant Peak XX377 incident1988 Refit refit completed Mar 1989 1990-sep Deployment Persian Gulf Task Group 321.1 Armilla Patrol 1990-sep Aircraft assigned 815 Sq 214 Flt Lynx HAS.3 XZ230 as /335 1994-oct Deployment Deployment to Arabian Gulf with HMS Cornwall , as part of US Operation Vigilant Warrior in support of Kuwait. 2000 Deployment to Belize for disaster relief operations following Hurricane Keith 2003-feb Deployment Armilla Patrol 2004-apr Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) HMS Glasgow and herself relieved by HMS Iron Duke in Sep. Returned to UK on 22 Oct.2004-may-8 Port Visit Tema 2005-jun-24 Port Visit Fleet Review: Trafalgar 200 2005-jul-14 Decommissioned paid off at HMNB Portsmouth 2006-jul Fareham Creek 2008-nov Fate: scrapped Aliaga Shipbreakers to Turkey for scrapping
Operation Corporate Left Mombasa for South Atlantic to join Bristol Group, leaving theatre on 7 Jul 1982 after being relieved by HMS Birmingham.
Tema visited Tema, Ghana until 11 May, during APT(S) deployment
Aliaga Shipbreakers to Turkey for scrapping
BAE Systems (Vickers), 
